"A year... That's just too short of a time..." A man spoke as he stared outside the window puffing out a cloud of smoke from his cigarette, he's a chubby man, no, actually, you can already call him extremely fat.
He had just woken up from a dream, no, a nightmare of reality, he had witnessed it, all of his ten years of experience from that time!
Shivering just from remembering the last scene of his life, how it ended.
His name is Karas Agnuv, an orphan.
"What was it again? Status window?" As he finished speaking, a blue holographic thing appeared in front of him.
[Name: Karas Agnuv
Class: none
Level: 1
EXP: (0/128)
HP: 100/100
MP: 100/100
SP: 1/1
ATK: 1~1
DEF: 1 (4)
STR: 1 (8)
AGI: 1
INT: 21 [124]
Attribute points: 0
Value Points: 0
Skill Points: 0]
There are other indications as well, he clicked on the STR's 8 and found out its proper uses or more detailed explanation...
Strength: 1, 8 use for attacking.
Karas frowned: "Use for attacking... at my current state, I wouldn't even be able to strike a pot of water down... System right? Explain."
[System: 1 is the amount of strength one can use in a normal situation, the numbers placed inside the ( ) are skills used, for example, is your physique, you can use your body to slam unto your enemy and kill or damage his HP.]
Karas couldn't help but smile, he looked at his body: "D*mn, how did I even survive for that long..."
"System, what's the 124 in int?"
[System: 21 is the normal knowledge of the person, since you've been returned back in time, you've brought along your knowledge from the times you were alive from your previous life.]
[System: two questions remaining, you are only entitled four questions every month. Each excess of question will cost the host 1,000,000 Gis or something of equivalent value.]
Gis is the currency throughout the world of Eros, and as an orphan, Karas is given a monthly allowance of 500 Gis, which is already great, but only if he studies.
Orphans are supplied with Gis so long as they study in a school, in turn, they will work in the government afterward, becoming a slave for their whole life, only earning a meager salary of 1,000 Gis a month.
"D*mn." Karas couldn't help but frown, but he's already gaining a lot of advantage just from being born again, hence, he couldn't help but still smile.
As he was contemplating, his T.V reported the news that he's most familiar with.
"Just this evening, what the people had thought to be a meteor was actually a spaceship, a lot of people started to gather and took pictures of it becoming a viral sensation immediately."
"There, we found six aliens, but sadly, they only lived for a few seconds before they died..."
They started to report it like it's some sort of great achievement or something, and then, a few men wearing black suits covered the area.
Karas frowned: "A year... but it already started..."
The event transpired just a few kilometers away from him, but that wasn't the end of it, after just a few more days, a few of these spaceships will ram all over the World, a total of seventy-nine times, but only this single event was known to the public.
He looked at the status window one more time and couldn't help but chuckle: "That defense must be how I can defend using my body fats..."
He looked at his own body: "I think I should do something about this body fat..."
"Statistics."
Ding!
[Height: 6'1
Weight: 197 Kg]
"Right, I need to go on a massive diet..." Karas sighed, then one last part is to ask about the value points: "System, what's the value points for and how to earn them?"
Ding!
[Value points: the currency used to buy from the system's store.
Host player has three ways to earn points in the current system, they are;
Killing Monsters: Points will depend on how strong the monster is
Missions: Host player has a way of obtaining missions from the system, each mission has different levels of difficulty and reward.
Exchanging currency: Current value: 100 Gis = 1 Value Point.]
Karas became speechless at this, so he only has a month worth of 5 value points?!
He couldn't help but sulk, but then, he thought: 'Maybe I can already buy something with five points?'
"System store!" He shouted as he became excited.
But reality slapped his face as hard as a bring wall into his face.
He started to search for things that he can buy, sorted the thing from lowest to highest.
And he really found the lowest.
[Name: Cola
Price: 1 VP
Description: Soothes thirst and feel good about it.]
Karas became speechless for a while: "May I remind you, that I can buy 100 colas from 100 Gis?!"
But after thinking about it for a while, there wasn't gonna be colas in the near future, hence, this really will be worth it!
He started to look for things that can be useful to him.
But the first one really costs 5 Points!
[Name: Diet Pill
Price: 5 VP
Effect: Exercise effect will increase by 30% for 1 hour.]
[Name: Diet Pill II
Price: 15 VP
Effect: Exercise effect will increase by 50% for 1 hour.]
[Name: Diet Pill IV
Price: 50 VP
Effect: Exercise effect will increase by 100% for 1 hour.]
"..." He became speechless, but still, as a newbie, he needed to search for things... like weapons!
[Name: Samurai's Edge
Type: Long Sword
Rarity: Normal
Price: 210 VP
Atk: 8~19
Str: +1
Requirement: level 1
Description: A fine piece of blade handed down the generation, can kill most normal beast quite effectively.]
Karas sighed, he started to browse all the way up to the 1,000,000 VP and gave up, it's all expensive sh*ts! But they definitely are worth their weight in gold.
"Right... one last thing, System Mission."
As he spoke, another window appeared, there are different kinds of missions all the way to difficulty SSSx, but he can't view them and could only view the F difficulty ones.
He casually picked one;
[Mission: The Massacre of Staff
Objective: Survive for 1 hour. (0/60)
Reward: 30 EXP, 6 VP
Bonus Objective:
Poison Rats: (0/12) - 40 EXP
Creeping Spiders: (0/24) - 35 EXP
Fanged Cockroaches: (0/24) - 35 EXP
Frozen Hound: (0/1) - 200 EXP, 20 VP
Number of players recommended: 1 - 3
Maximum of players that can enter: 5
Level requirements: Level 1~ 5
Story: There was a great company before everything started, never in their wildest dreams that the sewer system under their company is littered with pests, sooner, they were overwhelmed with swarms and were killed with only minor resistance.]
Karas understood the mission immediately, it will give you benefits, yeah, but you need to strive harder if you wish to grow stronger.
"System, how do I get these monsters?"
Ding!
[System: You will be able to enter a dungeon once you picked a quest.]
"And why are there a number of players recommended?"
Ding!
[System: You can bring along people inside a dungeon.]
Ding!
[System: You've used up your maximum number of questions for this month.]
Karas sighed, but he clenched his fist as his eyes burned furious with determination: "I'll change, this time, I won't be useless."